Torsion of a lipoma of parietal peritoneum: a rare case mimicking acute appendicitis

Lipomas are found most often on the torso, neck, upper thighs, upper arms and armpits; they can also occur almost anywhere in the body. Parietal peritoneum lipoma is a rare intraoperative finding during abdominal surgery. We present a case of a torted, pedunculated parietal wall lipoma in the right...

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Autores principales: Shrestha, Binod Bade, Karmacharya, Mikesh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2014
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4062179/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24941942
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rju062
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description Lipomas are found most often on the torso, neck, upper thighs, upper arms and armpits; they can also occur almost anywhere in the body. Parietal peritoneum lipoma is a rare intraoperative finding during abdominal surgery. We present a case of a torted, pedunculated parietal wall lipoma in the right iliac fossa that gave rise to a clinical diagnosis of appendicitis. So far only one case has been reported.
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spelling pubmed-40621792014-06-18 Torsion of a lipoma of parietal peritoneum: a rare case mimicking acute appendicitis Shrestha, Binod Bade Karmacharya, Mikesh J Surg Case Rep Case Reports Lipomas are found most often on the torso, neck, upper thighs, upper arms and armpits; they can also occur almost anywhere in the body. Parietal peritoneum lipoma is a rare intraoperative finding during abdominal surgery. We present a case of a torted, pedunculated parietal wall lipoma in the right iliac fossa that gave rise to a clinical diagnosis of appendicitis. So far only one case has been reported. Oxford University Press 2014-06-18 /pmc/articles/PMC4062179/ /pubmed/24941942 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rju062 Text en Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. © The Author 2014. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4062179/
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